Tracey Iceton is an author and creative writing tutor from Teesside. With PhD in creative writing from Northumbria University, Tracey is also a qualified English teacher experienced in delivering creating writing courses and workshops. She has ran courses in short story writing, script writing, beginners' creative writing, advanced creative writing and novel writing and a range of master classes for adults and young writers as well as running creative writing groups and publishing/editing anthologies. She also offers a mentoring, editorial and manuscript critiquing service for emerging writers (see her website for details). Her PhD project focused on finding a way to communicate the lived experiences of disempowered minorities through fiction. She regularly reads her creative work at literary events and contributes to public engagement, presenting accessible academic papers at a number of venues and taking part in author readings/talks for a range of audiences. Her website is www.trywriting.co.uk

Tracey won the 2013 HISSAC short story prize for ‘Butterfly Wings’, was runner up in the 2013 Cinnamon Press short story competition with ‘Slag’ which appears in the anthology Journey Planner, won the 2011 Writers Block NE Home Tomorrow Short Story Competition and was shortlisted for the 2012 Bristol Short Story Competition with ‘Apple Shot’. Green Dawn at St Enda’s, her debut novel and part one of her Celtic Colours, was published by Cinnamon Press in early 2016 with part two, Herself Alone in Orange Rain following in Oct 2017 and with part three, White Leaves of Peace, due for publication at Easter 2019. A fourth novel by her, Rock God COmplex, will be released in 2020. Her stories have appeared in anthologies and journals including; The Irish Literary Review, Prole, Litro, Neon, Tears in the Fence, The Momaya Annual Review, The Yellow Room and Writer’s Muse.